It's a real-life spy story, straight from the heart of the Second World War. This triumph of espionage by the Soviet Military Intelligence took the Nazis over two years to crack. Made up of a diverse mixture of Russians, Jews, Poles, and other Europeans (including some Germans), the Red Orchestra played a vital role in the destruction of Nazism--despite the constant fear of discovery. Many were tortured. But, by the time the Germans finished their investigation, the Eastern front was already lost.

Cassell Military Classics: The Red Orchestra: The Soviet Spy Network Inside Nazi Europe

History

Tarrant, V.E.

Military

Cassell

For the Germans, the Battle of Jutland in 1916 should have been a simple set piece that lured the British Grand Fleet into a lethal trap. Instead, it turned into a confused, rambling conflict. The Royal Navy suffered higher losses, but the German fleet never again ventured out of harbor to fight. Using previously unseen records, action reports, letters, plus charts and drawings of major warships, a naval historian tells this absorbing tale from the German perspective. It sheds new light on just what happened.

Jutland: The German Perspective

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Cassell, 2001

Jutland: The German Perspective (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

A fascinating account of one of the most successful spying operations of World War IILong recognized as one of the most successful (and ruthless) spy networks in history, the Red Orchestra was a group of Soviet cells that operated throughout Germany and occupied Europe until late 1943. The Germans knew of its existence as early as 1941. Yet, it was only after two years of dogged detective work, lucky breaks, interrogation, and betrayals that they were able to silence the Red Orchestra for good. By that time the damage had been done and the Third Reich was facing extinction. Now, The Red Orchestra offers readers a unique opportunity to learn the complete story of Russia's hidden war against Nazi Germany. Vividly recreating a shadowy world of intrigue and espionage in war-torn Europe, The Red Orchestra introduces all the major players and describes spectacular feats of espionage performed right under the Germans' noses.
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<li>Contains new research based on original sources </li>
<li>A real-life spy story containing all the drama and suspense of the best spy fiction </li>
<li>The first book to explore all three sectors of the spy operation: the Grand Chef's Western circuit in France, Belgium, and Holland; Die Rote Drei in Switzerland; and the Berlin network</li>
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V. E. TARRANT (South Wales, Great Britain) is a military and naval historian and author of several books on World War II.

The Red Orchestra

Trade Paper Press

By November, 1942, the empire of Adolf Hitler had reached its zenith. It stretched from North Africa to the Arctic, from the English Channel to Stalingrad deep inside the Russian interior. The German Army seemed invincible, but then, in a matter of only five days, from 19th to 23rd November, 1942, the seemingly impossible happened. During a massive Russian counter-offensive involving over a million men, 1,560 tanks, 16,261 field-guns and mortars and 1,327 aircraft, not only were two Rumanian armies wiped off the Axis order of battle, but more decisively the 'crack' German 6th Army, under the command of General Friedrich Paulus, was encircled at Stalingrad. Despite being cut off from the remainder of the Eastern Front in a huge cauldron (Der Kessel), the 269,000 troops of the 6th Army continued to resist against impossible odds for seventy-two blood-soaked days. Devoid of adequate winter clothing, enduring temperatures of minus 35 degrees centigrade on a bare, blizzard-swept steppe, with nothing to eat but scraps of bread and watery soup, the doomed army suffered an infinity of agonies including frostbite, dysentery and typhus. While they slowly froze and starved to death they were constantly pounded by Russian artillery and bomber sorties. When 6th Army finally surrendered on 2nd February, 1943, only 91,000 of the original force remained alive to be herded into Siberian prison camps. Surrendering to the Russians, however, proved to be only an alternative way of dying, for only 5,000 survived the captivity to see Germany again. The author has drawn on a wealth of German and Russian sources to write this commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the battle which broke the back of the German Army, and turned the tide of the war in the Allies' favour. This is the first book to give a balanced account of Stalingrad from both the German and the Russian perspectives.

Stalingrad: Anatomy of an Agony

Hippocrene Books

Europe

Leo Cooper

"The Anatomy of the Ship" series provides documentation of individual ships and ship types. The books are illustrated with line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explantory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history. HMS "Warspite" was arguably one of the finest capital ship designs of all time. "Warspite" and her four sister ships of the "Queen Elizabeth" class were the prototypes of the modern fast battleship, the ultimate development of the "Dreadnought" type. "Warspite" had one of the most active and successful fighting careers. Her service spanned two generations from Jutland in 1916, the last great surface engagement between battle fleets, where she received many hits, to the dawn of the missile age (she was badly damaged by a guided bomb in 1943), with battle honours that also included Narvik, Matapan and the D-Day landings. The "Old Lady", as she was affectionaly known during World War II, was finally approved for breaking up in 1946.

Battleship Warspite

Naval_Institute_Press

Battlecruiser Invincible: The History of the First Battlecruiser, 1909-16

A thorough examination of the u-boat menace in both world wars. Both times England was almost defeated by the effective use of submarines. The rise and fall of the u-boats is well chronicled with many illustrations. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The U-Boat Offensive 1914-1945

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Cassell Military Classics: The Red Orchestra: The Soviet Spy Network Inside Nazi Europe

Jutland: The German Perspective

Jutland: The German Perspective (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

The Red Orchestra

Stalingrad: Anatomy of an Agony

Stalingrad: Anatomy of an Agony

Battleship Warspite

Battlecruiser Invincible: The History of the First Battlecruiser, 1909-16

The U-Boat Offensive 1914-1945

Battleship Warspite